The Balsillie Papers provides clear, concise, peer-reviewed articles about today’s most complex issues in global governance and international affairs.

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LATEST PAPER

Africa and the America First Global Health Strategy: Critical Reflections

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Howard Stein

The US, under President Trump, has replaced previous approaches to global health with the America First Global Health Strategy (AFGHS). This paper focuses on the motivation and impact of this approach on important areas such as African digital sovereignty and the ability to contain emergent diseases.

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RECENT PAPERS

FAIR-A4: A Governance Model for Auditable, Accountable, Actionable and Attributable Agentic AI

Abbas Yazdinejad, Hadis Karimipour and Ann Fitz-Gerald
This paper surfaces existing gaps in the governance of agentic AI systems. To enable governance of decisions by agentic systems operating at machine speed, we propose FAIR-A4.

A Skewed “Modernization”: Looking for Balance in Canada’s Access to Information and Privacy Reviews

Matt Malone
This policy paper discusses Canada's ongoing reviews of the federal Access to Information Act and Privacy Act and identifies several reforms that would rebalance these separate review processes.

Potential Security Implications of Climate Intervention Technologies for NATO

Elizabeth Chalecki
This paper discusses the security effects of climate change, the pros and cons of different types of climate intervention (CI) that would operate in the global commons and the policy implications for NATO.

Whose Law Governs Canadian Data?

The CLOUD Act, Executive Agreements and Digital Sovereignty

SPECIAL REPORT

MARCH 11, 2026

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